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n. - Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape.

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  • One reason was that Congress's cumbersomeness, which is a function of its fractiousness, is a virtue because it makes the government slow and difficult to move.
  • The phlogistic theory was destroyed by its own cumbersomeness.
  • To me, I see an embedded disgust for the cumbersomeness of state standards.
  • Today, the issue of Traditional Chinese's cumbersomeness is almost non-existent.
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